Orestes at Delphi
- Title
- Orestes at Delphi
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Bell krater Old Catalogue 1294 Vase F166
- Creator
- Pittore degli Eumenidi
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Eumenides Painter (Greek vase painters, active ca. 385-360 BCE)
- Description
- A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Trendall, A D; Cambitoglou, Alexander, The red-figured vases of Apulia, Volumes 1-2, Oxford, Clarendon press, 1978; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893 Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (wine-bowl). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. Above the designs, laurel-wreath; below, maeander alternating with chequers and crosses; below the handles, palmettes. (a) Purification of Orestes at Delphi: On the left is an Ionic column, indicating the temple, and by it a bucranion with wreath, from which hangs a sacrificial vitta. Orestes to left, beardless, with white pilos at back of neck, and bordered chlamys over left arm, kneels on left knee at the base of the omphalos, clinging to it with left arm, with sword extended in right hand as if to ward off the Furies, and sheath in left; the omphalos is covered with the agrenon. Behind Orestes stands Apollo with two laurel-leaves in right hand, with which he sprinkles the blood over him; he is beardless, with hair in a knot, bordered chlamys and laurel-branch over left arm, in left hand a phiale. On the altar are two large acanthus-leaves; it bears an imitation inscription, apparently modern. (b) Two ephebi conversing, each with staff and himation over left shoulder; between them, a Doric column. --The British Museum
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Apulia, Italy (creation)
- Temporal
- ca. 380-360 BCE
- Subject
- Aeneid Oresteia
- Style Period
- Red-figure Apulian (pottery style)
- Work Type
- bell kraters
- Date
- -0380/-0360
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_02512
- Item Locator
- Box 7, Section 2
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 33 cm Width: 34.5 mm Weight: 2.6 kg Diameter: 34.29 cm
- Material
- pottery | painted
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Apulian (culture or style)
- Id Current Repository
- 1772,0320.96
